than just a few more items and a couple of extra career paths you get to explore the altogether friskier side of sim life... dating.The first addition to the Sims u...
than just a few more items and a couple of extra career paths you get to explore the altogether friskier side of sim life... dating.The first addition to the Sims universe is the downtown area. This is where your sims can go to hang out and buy dating-related paraphernalia. There are several restaurants ranging from the diner style to the more upmarket fish place, as well as a beach area, memorial park and a couple of malls.Here you have to find a suitable sim and start chatting them up. To help you out there are over 40 new interactions and "interests". These are like the "skills" cooking, mechanical etc and are listed in a new menu denoted by the speech bubble. Here you can see exactly what your sim is into and will talk about. You can improve these by making your sims more well read with magazines bought in the Mall.Once you have charmed your opposite number, it's time to ask them on a date. There are now two relationship meters, one for your long-term relationship with this sim and one for that particular encounter. How high these are will determine whether you get knocked back or not, but if you do manage to get their phone number when you return home you will see that you are able to call them and invite them downtown for a date. If only reality was that easy.In terms of new furniture-related and decorative items, themed around the downtown area. For the Casanova sim, there is a heart-shaped hot tub and of course some new skins so that you can introduce new faces into your town.You can also edit the downtown area by creating your own buildings. You have free reign to create a dating arena extraordinaire as there is no budget. On the not-so-positive side, the game still suffers from freezing up for several seconds when there is a high level of detail on the screen and there isn't a massive amount of new stuff here if you have already played the sims to death, but having said thatThe Simsis really is one of the best and most addictive sim-games out there and this expansion pack is definitely better value for your simoleans than any of the others have been. --Kristen Bowditch
A review by Charlotte987 on The Sims Hot Date Expansion Pack (PC) July 24th, 2005
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Advantages:
Your sims are free
Disadvantages:
you need 600MB free space to install
Recommend to potential buyers:
yes
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The sims hot date allows you to take your sims downtown, which then can allow you to play matchmaker to your sims and watch the sparks fly or fizzle. Get them out of the house and into the all-new downtown area where they'll gossip over a candlelit dinner, buy gifts such as red roses and chocolates to give to other sims or their dates or cruise the strip in the hope of getting lucky.
Will your sims find true love or be destined to a lifetime membership in the lonely hearts club? The answer is up to you and how well you look after your sims needs.
The sims hot date is an expansion pack that is played requiring you have the sims, which enables you to play both games together. Requiring you have 600MB free hard drive space to install the game then you will be ok and have no problems with installation.
The sims hot date has allowed us sims fans to take our sims out. Before the only way to get the sims out of the house was to go on another house and invite them round as a guest but they controlled themselves and we couldn't tell them what to do. Another way the sims went out was when they went to work but we never went with the so we didn't get to se them out of the house. The sims hot date allows us to go with our sims and take them to a place where they can meet new people and even buy news clothes and other items to take home.
When you go on a date it is alot harder to talk to people as you need lots in common such as you r sims interests. Your sims interests are shown to you. It shows you how much that sims is interested in soimething. You can build up your sims interests by buying books of a paticular interest from the lots and reading up about something. Your sim has to be in a good mood before they will learn anything and it takes a while before they start building up interests.
You can take your sims out and about and even invite a friend, which on the evening you can hang out and ask to go on a date. If your sim is lonely and doesn't have any friends that he or she likes then you can take your sim on their own and meet someone at the places.
Your sims can decide to hang out or date and make lots of friendships this way as it helps people to form friendships.
You can create a downtown lots complete with shops, restaurants, parks and a beach. Improve the long and short-term relationships with over 40 new one-on-one interactions.The sims hot date expansion pack has created new characters to meet and date such as:
Blonde Bombshell
Femme Fatale
Dream Boat
Lounge Lizard
Jock
The sims hot date expansion pack also has 125+ new items such as:
# Cuddle couch: Just sit back and relax or get a little closer.
# Fishpond: Feed the fish, play with sailboats.
# Ice cream counter: Have a sweet treat alone or share a cone with a friend.
# Picnic basket: Enjoy a passionate picnic in the park.
# Lovers swing: Get into the swing of things at home or in the park.
The sims hot date website allows you to access on-line technical help, insider news and info and demos and updates.
The game includes an electronic help file to help solve any problems you might have running your game. You ask the questions- it provides the answers. The help file can be accessed from the windows start bar in the same group as your game. The help file also includes 'easy info'- a diagnostic tool that helps you, or electronic arts technical support staff to identify the problem you're having.
The sims hot date requires a minimum configuration:
Windows 95 or windows 98 (windows NT is not supported)
The sims for windows 95/98 installed
266 MHZ Intel Pentium or AMD processor
64 MB RAM (128 MB recommended if also using other expansion packs for the sims)
4x CD-ROM/DVD-ROM drive
600MB free hard disk space for saved games (additional space required for windows swap file)
High color (800x600 resolution) capable 2MB video card with a DirectX 7.0 compatible driver
DirectX 7.0 compatible sound card
Keyboard, mouse
Before installing the game if you have livin' it up and house party then they recommend you install them before installing hot date. Advantages: + Meet new sims + New items for you sims to interact with + New characters with different needs + New lots and places to visit + Your sims can have dinner with new sims + You only need 600MB free to play the game + Even after installing the game your original saved games will still be there and you can still play that family and take them to new lots from the new expansion pack + Only costs £19.97 from Woolworth's but might have gone down in price now. + New and exciting things to do + You can ask your sims, How are you? + You can ask your sims, How's work? + You can ask your sims, What are you into? + You can ask your sims, Let's date + You can ask your sims, Let's hang out
Disadvantages: + You only need 600MB free to install the game. + When your sims fall asleep you cant wake them up you just have to fast forward it until they wake themselves up.
The sims hot date is really fun to play and very addictive so addictive that just by writing about it I want to play it.
Advantages: many new options, build on relationships, Disadvantages: you need to have a fast computer to play
...offer more than any of the previous expansion packs to the best selling PC Game, The Sims. Sim fans had always felt trapped at the fact that you could never take their Sims out of their houses. Well, in a way, you could - by calling up your Sim from another house and inviting them over, but you couldn't control them. You could send them out to work - but you wouldn't be able to see them there.
Hot Date, the third expansion pack to the game, (released ... ...and exciting - the ability to call up a cab and take your Sims downtown. And, with The Sims: Vacation planned for UK release in April, it looks like the idea of taking your Sims out of their houses is going to be played on more. I'm not sure why Maxis decided to let Sim fans have this new freedom. It was a welcome, but dramatic change to the way the game works. Maybe it was because they wanted to make up for the cancellation of SimsVille (which was ...
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Advantages: Loads of new ways to enertain your imaginary friends Disadvantages: Sound and graphics can be jumpy.
The Sims Hot Date is the new and exciting expansion pack from Maxis/EA Games, following on from the success of The Sims, Sims, Livin’ it up, and Sims House Party. Hot date was released in the UK in November, and according to an assistant in PC world in Derby has sold well, and as I write it is number 12 in the Amazon.co.uk ‘Hot 100’ PC games. I eventually bought via Amazon.co.uk, as they offered one of the best prices around for ... ...may begin!
I found the installation of the game was easy, with none of the problems reported by other users (crashes etc.). All I needed to do was to find my Sims House Party disk (easier said than done in our study!), and insert it after first inserting the Hot Date disk. Maxis recommend that if you buy the other expansion packs (House party, Livin’ it up) after Hot Date, then it is best to uninstall all the Sims programmes, and to install ...
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04.01.2002
the hot spicy date Review ofThe Sims Hot Date Expansion Pack (PC)by
darrenaspinall
Advantages: you control the relationships Disadvantages: cab be a bit addictive
...a nice little addition to the Sims selection, it gives you hours, days, even months of fun!!! If you thought that The Sims was a great game, then just wait till you getta hold of the Hot Date Expansion Pack! I guarantee that you won't be dissappointed. You must already own the sims to play and have 600MB free hard drive space and 64MB RAM to play this expansion pack. The game is aimed at +15yrs old, so it isn't really ideal for the kids, It can get ... ...Now then, let's talk about the game: Gameplay In the new "Downtown" area, you're sims can escape the pressures of their everyday life at home, they can spend sometime relaxing and enjoying life for a change. There are restaurants where your sims can dine with the company of their choice, or on their own if they prefer. They can relax by a pond in the local park, take in the atmosphere in the bar or make new friends playing pool. There is a nightclub ...
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22.01.2002
REAL LIFE IN A GAME Review ofThe Sims Hot Date Expansion Pack (PC)by
darrenasprin
Advantages: HOURS OF FUN Disadvantages: NO END TO THE GAME
...a nice little addition to the Sims selection, it gives you hours, days, even months of fun!!! If you thought that The Sims was a great game, then just wait till you getta hold of the Hot Date Expansion Pack! I guarantee that you won't be dissappointed. You must already own the sims to play and have 600MB free hard drive space and 64MB RAM to play this expansion pack. The game is aimed at +15yrs old, so it isn't really ideal for the kids, It can get ... ...Now then, let's talk about the game: Gameplay In the new "Downtown" area, you're sims can escape the pressures of their everyday life at home, they can spend sometime relaxing and enjoying life for a change. There are restaurants where your sims can dine with the company of their choice, or on their own if they prefer. They can relax by a pond in the local park, take in the atmosphere in the bar or make new friends playing pool. There is a nightclub ...
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Advantages: More customisable than ever and much more challenging Disadvantages: The unpredictability of the Sims can become frustrating at times
...games, none more so than the fantastic Sims. When Maxis first released the Sims I thought I’d died and gone to heaven. Could it get any better than this, I wondered?
Well, yes apparently it could, because a range of expansion packs followed in quick succession, each more brilliant than the last. But still I felt something was lacking. Ok, so my Sim could throw wonderful House Parties and choose from a variety of interesting jobs. She had interesting ... ...time. But where was the challenge? Sim men are, on the whole, extremely easy to romance and seduce. Flirt with them a couple of times, give them a backrub, and they’re ready to fall at your feet and declare never ending love.
Or so I thought. But then I discovered the Hot Date expansion pack, and all of a sudden my view of Sim men was radically altered. Because in Hot Date they’re not easy at all. In fact, just getting them to talk to you for more ...
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AKA: My Sims Kingdom - Genre: Simulation, Kids/Family - Life Sim/Virtual Pet - Publisher: Electronic Arts (EA) - Developer(s): EA Redwood Shores - Age Rating: 3+
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